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The concept of the Jews as a chosen people is a key element of the Jewish faith and identity. This book explores the idea of chosenness from the ancient world, through modernity and into the Post-Holocaust era. Analysing a vast corpus of biblical, ancient, rabbinic and modern Jewish literature, the author seeks to give a better understanding of this central doctrine of the Jewish religion. She shows that although the idea of chosenness has been central to Judaism and Jewish self-definition, it has not been carried to the present day in the same form. Instead it has gone through constant change, depending on who is employing it, against what sort of background, and for what purpose. Surveying...
Islamicate Occult Sciences in Theory and Practice brings together the latest research on Islamic occult sciences from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, namely intellectual history, manuscript studies and material culture. Its aim is not only to showcase the range of pioneering work that is currently being done in these areas, but also to provide a model for closer interaction amongst the disciplines constituting this burgeoning field of study. Furthermore, the book provides the rare opportunity to bridge the gap on an institutional level by bringing the academic and curatorial spheres into dialogue. Contributors include: Charles Burnett, Jean-Charles Coulon, Maryam Ekhtiar, Noah Gardiner, Christiane Gruber, Bink Hallum, Francesca Leoni, Matthew Melvin-Koushki, Michael Noble, Rachel Parikh, Liana Saif, Maria Subtelny, Farouk Yahya, and Travis Zadeh.
The debate over Allah’s attribute—the “nature” and the inner articulation of Allah—is one of the focal debates in the intellectual history of Islam. This edited collection aims to highlight and examine some aspects of this debate in their original context, based on the relevant primary literature. By showing that even an apparently self-evident concept such as Allah, which lies at the heart of every reading of Islam, is highly ambiguous and polysemous, the chapters also emphasise the plurality that has always existed in Islamic thought. Through highlighting the philosophical and theological reflections on the concept of Allah, the results of this study challenge the juristic readin...
Many Jewish groups of late antiquity assumed that they were obligated to observe the Divine Law. This book attempts to study the various rationales offered by these groups to explain the authority that the Divine Law had over them. Second Temple groups tended to look towards philosophy or metaphysics to justify the Divine Law’s authority. The tannaim, though, formulated legal arguments that obligate Israel to observe the Divine Law. While this turn towards legalism is pan-tannaitic, two distinct legal arguments can be identified in tannaitic literature. These specific arguments about the Divine Law’s authority, link to a set of issues regarding the tannaim’s conception of Divine Law and of Israel’s election.
The concept of the Jews as a chosen people is a key element of the Jewish faith and identity. This book explores the idea of chosenness from the ancient world, through modernity and into the Post-Holocaust era. Analysing a vast corpus of biblical, ancient, rabbinic and modern Jewish literature, the author seeks to give a better understanding of this central doctrine of the Jewish religion. She shows that although the idea of chosenness has been central to Judaism and Jewish self-definition, it has not been carried to the present day in the same form. Instead it has gone through constant change, depending on who is employing it, against what sort of background, and for what purpose. Surveying...
Bu çalışma, hem Türkiye’de Yahudiliğe yönelik artan ilgiye hem de Yahudiler’in ve Müslümanlar’ın birbirlerini daha iyi tanıma ihtiyacına ve gerekliliğine binaen İSAM Yayınları tarafından yayımlanmış olan Yahudilik başlıklı daha geniş bir çalışmanın daraltılmış versiyonudur. Yahudiliği tarihî gelişimi, modern mezhepleri, kutsal metinleri, inanç anlayışı ve dinî uygulamaları üzerinden ve kendi kaynaklarından hareketle herkesin anlayacağı bir dille ortaya koymayı amaçlayan bu kitaptan bütün okurların istifade etmesi umulur.
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(Kur’ân’ı kesinlikle biz indirdik; elbette onu yine biz koruyacağız) (el-Hicr 15/9) ● Kur’ân-ı Kerîm’in ilk hâfızı, Hz. Peygamber’dir (a.s.). Vahyedilen Kur’ân âyetleri, evvela onun (a.s.) ruhuna ve kalbine nakşedilmiştir. O (a.s.); nazil olan vahyi kâtiplerine yazdırıp okutmuş, ashâbına tebliğ etmiş ve Kur’ân sahifelerini hücre-i saâdette muhafaza etmiştir. Ashâb da Kur’ân’ı ezberlemiş ve yazmıştır. Hz. Peygamber (a.s.), birçok sahâbeyi Kur’ân’ı öğretmekle görevlendirmiştir. ● İlk hâlîfe Hz. Ebû Bekir (r.a.), Hz. Peygamber’in (a.s.) vefatından bir yıl sonra; gelecekte oluşabilecek belirsizliklere karşı Medine’de...
Berâhime ve Sümeniyye nübüvvete bazı açılardan itirazda bulunan iki akımdır. Bunların menşei hakkında ihtilaf bulunsa da çoğunluğa göre her ikisi de Hint kökenlidir. Öte yandan İbnü’r-Râvendî, onun üstadı Ebû Îsâ el-Verrâk ve “Arapların Galen”i olarak anılan Ebû Bekir er-Râzî gibi şahıslar da nübüvvete çeşitli açılardan itirazda bulunmuştur. Mu‘tezile’den Câhız ve Kādî Abdülcebbâr gibi mütekellimler, kendi dönemlerinde söz konusu itirazlara reddiye yazmak suretiyle nübüvveti müdafaa etmeye çalışmıştır. Günümüzde varlık gösteren Deizm ve Pozitivizm gibi akımlar, söz konusu inkârcı akımların fikirlerine par...